Quotes About Character

the true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them aboslutely no good

People with integrity expect to be believed. If not, they let time prove them right.

And is it possible,' said Emily, as these recollections returned—'is it possible, that a mind, so susceptible of whatever is grand and beautiful, could stoop to low pursuits, and be subdued by frivolous temptations?

How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much indeed was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, which he fancied must express all the sensibility of character that the modulation of her tones indicated.

I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.

None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?

God's goal isn't simply to fill the world with people who believe the right things. It is to fill the world with people who shine with the brilliance of Christ.

The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

The proper function of any school is to train character, and all its studies are of importance only as means by which this end can be attained.

Very few have arrived at the conclusion that woman's nature, like man's, is self-determining, and that her character and her powers must decide her destiny; that instead of prescribing the outward limits of her action, the important point is to increase her energy, to regulate her activity by self-discipline, to purify her nature by nobility of thought and sentiment, and then to leave her free to work out her thought into life as she can and must.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

So far as other people are concerned, you are your behaviour; so far as you are concerned, you are your thoughts and feelings.

Leopards don't change their spots

Plant a thought, harvest an act," they sang. "Plant an act, harvest a habit; plant a habit, harvest a character; plant a character, harvest a destiny.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

The ultimate act of bravery does not take place on a battlefield. It takes place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

It is good people who make good places.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

caballero" to the waiters. The last guy I saw doing that was Manolito in the High Chaparral.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Yes, to obviate his becoming such a gentleman as his father.